He wants to stay on while his children are playing.Afterward, his options are open. He says he is uncertain about his long-term plans as a rec volunteer. They were just as deserving as I am why not them? Hott said it occurred to him that,"others worked just as hard as I did, and they also wear multiple hats. However he added that most of this work falls on but a small group of volunteers.īoth men said they learned in advance that they had been picked, and both expressed surprise at being selected. It's amazing just how much time they spend so the kids can play the sports they like." He says that, "I am really surprised at the time and effort that some people spend each week on the kids' recreation programs. He summed up with," I enjoy improving the quality of the players and their understanding of the game."īesides teaching, Hott has also been a learner himself in his years with the Charles Carroll Rec Council. I enjoy seeing a team that didn't win a game the year before win half their games the next season." Hott says, "I love kids, and I enjoy watching them develop and improve from a struggling player to decent quality player. Like Blizzard, Hott gets his primary enjoyment from the players themselves rather than from winning games. In addition to his coaching duties, he can also be found on weekends lining, mowing and in other ways preparing the fields for soccer. But he has since moved back to soccer which he says is "hands down" his favorite sport.īesides coaching a number of soccer teams, Hott helps the soccer program in another very important way. He also coached his son Maxwell's baseball team and daughter Madison's softball squad for a few years. Once others with Charles Carroll learned of his extensive soccer background, Hott was quickly recruited to be a soccer head coach. He played at Francis Scott Key and now plays indoor soccer on a team with some former Eagles teammates. Her choice of sports fed perfectly into her dad's resume because he'd been playing soccer since he was five. Hott started coaching about seven years ago when his daughter Madison began playing soccer. Meanwhile, he'll stay with the Council in a more active capacity at least until son Luke and daughter Brooke move on. He sees himself as a mentor, working with, training and encouraging assistant coaches to take over teams. He says his long-term role with the Council might be helping that process along.
Then they see how much fun it is, and they usually go with it." However Blizzard believes he has an answer, saying, "you have to get them started as assistant coaches. They often feel they lack the knowledge to run a team. He says his biggest concern is the reluctance of volunteers to take over as team head coaches. In 2011, he became president and still holds that spot.Ī major project he has overseen during his tenure as president is last fall's construction of a concession stand at the Carroll County Sports Complex where Charles Carroll holds many of its activities.Blizzard coordinated the construction of the stand which allows Charles Carroll to make refreshments available to its teams when they play there and also to raise money. In 2009, he became Council vice president. He says he is particularly happy when kids want to join a team he will be coaching the following year.īlizzard coaches his son's and daughter's soccer teams during the fall, and there have been winters where he has coached as many as four indoor teams at a time. "It's the relationships with the kids, and it's watching them develop and grow as players," Blizzard said, adding, "it's also the relationships with the parents." That reward comes from working with the youngsters.Īnd over the years, he has built up a bond with them. But he makes it clear that those first place trophies aren't his biggest reward. His soccer teams, which play in a league with squads from Taneytown and other West Carroll communities,have won a couple of championships over the years.
"I've had some of these kids since elementary school, and now they they play travel soccer and on high school varsity teams," Blizzard explained. But he gave that up when his kids decided to concentrate on soccer year-round. They originally joined up because their children did, and they have been there ever since.īlizzard, who joined up in 2004, also coached his son's and daughter's baseball and softball teams for awhile.
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